Developer Tea

By Jonathan Cutrell

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Devin Brown
 Jan 16, 2021
Use the breaker app to hear the first 300+/- episodes...then continue here...much better app...but great, short content episodes with lots of inspiring content and advice.

Mikhail
 Aug 21, 2020
Short useful focused episodes on wide range of software engineering career/work topics.

Jonathan Arnold
 Jan 18, 2019
concise and informative

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Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: developertea@gmail.com

Episode Date
Practical Application of Information Theory
Mar 27, 2024
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Hyperfixation on Measurements and Communication Degradation
Mar 22, 2024
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Clarity as a Precursor to Focus and Strategy for Possibilities
Mar 20, 2024
Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice
Mar 16, 2024
Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service
Mar 14, 2024
Taking Personal Accountability for Systematic Failures
Mar 08, 2024
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part Two
Mar 06, 2024
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part One
Mar 01, 2024
Treat Your Time as A Product You Own
Feb 28, 2024
Von Restorff Isolation Effect and a Backfiring of Process
Feb 25, 2024
Perform a Career Premortem
Feb 22, 2024
Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency
Feb 16, 2024
Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
Feb 03, 2024
Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
Jan 26, 2024
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
Jan 16, 2024
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
Jan 05, 2024
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
Dec 15, 2023
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
Dec 09, 2023
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
Dec 01, 2023
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Nov 27, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Nov 09, 2023
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
Nov 03, 2023
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
Oct 26, 2023
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
Oct 21, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
Oct 12, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
Oct 03, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
Sep 21, 2023
Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
Sep 17, 2023
Two Tips for Better Retros - Add Specificity, Respect Uncertainty
Sep 05, 2023
One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step
Aug 27, 2023
Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules
Aug 20, 2023
Schedule Carving
Aug 12, 2023
Long Term Scoreboard for Short Term Games
Aug 04, 2023
Slow Down and Start With One Goal
Jul 22, 2023
Using the Accountability Triangle When Diagnosing A Failure
Jul 13, 2023
Career Growth Starts With Improving Your Clarity
Jul 03, 2023
Tech Lag Over Tech Debt
Jun 26, 2023
Good Negotiation is About Collaborative Problem Solving
Jun 12, 2023
Tools To Deal With Layoff Anxiety
Jun 03, 2023
System Design - Limiting the Responsibilities Of A Given Actor
May 20, 2023
Focus on Process Orientation for Goal Setting
May 12, 2023
How to Give Better Feedback - My Single Biggest Piece of Advice to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Feedback
May 05, 2023
Planning is About Creating Clarity, Not Certainty
Apr 28, 2023
Process is Primarily for Managing Critical Moments
Apr 20, 2023
Taking Advantage of Hedonic Adaptation
Apr 11, 2023
Weber's Law and Contextual Framing
Apr 03, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - You Won't Use All of Your Knowledge
Mar 31, 2023
The Pitfall of Control and Antidote of Trust
Mar 20, 2023
Working Balance - Confronting Reality with Optimism
Mar 17, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Choosing the Right Granularity Level
Mar 09, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Difficult Does Not Equate To Valuable
Mar 04, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Systematically Communicating Value
Feb 27, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Dynamic vs Static Understanding of Situations
Feb 24, 2023
Long Game, Short Game
Feb 22, 2023
The Rate of Change for Change Itself
Feb 15, 2023
Protecting Flow State - Setting Your Session Feedback And Goal
Feb 13, 2023
Protecting Flow State - Plan Now, Pause Later
Feb 10, 2023
Golden Advice - Always Leave Margin For Extra
Feb 06, 2023
Your Purpose is A Projection of Your Complex Identity
Feb 02, 2023
Demystifying Purpose by Focusing On Your Purpose For Today
Jan 31, 2023
Reframing Deficiencies as Strengths
Jan 28, 2023
Management Model of Ability and Will Applied to Self
Jan 23, 2023
Beginner Confidence
Jan 19, 2023
Comparing Cost Curves and Second Order Thinking
Jan 17, 2023
Spectrum of Buy-In For Behavior Change
Jan 11, 2023
Your Learning Investment Portfolio
Jan 09, 2023
Celebrating 8 Years - Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong
Jan 05, 2023
Using Strategy, Tactics, and Operations to Achieve Intentions
Jan 03, 2023
Resolve To Make Important Asks In The New Year
Dec 23, 2022
Complexity As A Depreciating Asset
Dec 21, 2022
Your Biggest Opportunity is In Your Daily Influence
Dec 15, 2022
Get Acquainted With What Holds You Back
Dec 12, 2022
How Ordering Your Events in A Day Can Matter
Dec 09, 2022
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs (Fixed Audio)
Dec 07, 2022
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs
Dec 05, 2022
Focus On Activities With Asymmetrical Upside
Nov 30, 2022
Misjudging Others Attention On Us
Nov 28, 2022
An Outsider Exercise in Gratitude
Nov 24, 2022
You Know The Right Decision, Now Reduce The Friction
Nov 21, 2022
Using Observational Techniques to Find Your Personal Values
Nov 16, 2022
Avoid Defining Success Outside Your Locus of Control
Nov 14, 2022
The Toxic Laziness of Overwork Culture
Nov 10, 2022
Start With Precise Communication
Nov 07, 2022
The Error of Discounting the Unexpected
Nov 02, 2022
Looking at What Wasn't Done
Oct 31, 2022
Success is Born From Luck and Action
Oct 26, 2022
Build Environments That Produce Habits
Oct 24, 2022
Design Your Low Stakes Environment As A Mirror of Your High Stakes Environment
Oct 20, 2022
Better Goals - Deriving Values from Personal Investment and Risk Tolerance
Oct 18, 2022
Better Goals - Finding Cohesion Between Your Long and Short Term Goals
Oct 12, 2022
Better Goals - Two Guidelines for Better Outcomes
Oct 10, 2022
5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively
Oct 05, 2022
Short Term Tactics, Long Term Principles
Oct 04, 2022
Revolutionize Your Most Important Meetings with Powerful Questions
Sep 28, 2022
Diffuse and Focused Thinking
Sep 26, 2022
Why It's Hard to Do Nothing
Sep 21, 2022
Demystifying Decision-Making - Success is Not Just About Making Good Decisions
Sep 19, 2022
What You Have In Common With the Smartest Person In the World
Sep 15, 2022
A Way Out of Overwhelm
Sep 12, 2022
Understand Position and Interest To Make Better Collaborative Decisions
Sep 09, 2022
Future Thinking Is Not Planning For A Single Course of Events
Sep 05, 2022
Balancing Decision Frames
Aug 31, 2022
Copy of How Feedback Loops Shape Our World (Fixed Audio)
Aug 31, 2022
Reframing Every Decision As A Tradeoff
Aug 29, 2022
Judging Quality of Decisions Instead of Outcomes in Performance Reviews
Aug 27, 2022
How Feedback Loops Shape Our World
Aug 22, 2022
Solve Specific Problems by Composing General Solutions
Aug 19, 2022
Common Excuses for Not Setting Goals
Aug 15, 2022
Better Process to Match Intentions to Actions
Aug 12, 2022
Change Through the Lens of Adjustment and Maintenance
Aug 10, 2022
Built to Change
Aug 06, 2022
Deconstructing Status Meetings
Aug 03, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Pick Your Tools, Then Do Your Work
Jul 27, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Primary Activities, Modes, and Cues
Jul 25, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Limit Everything In Progress
Jul 22, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Principle of Least Surprise
Jul 20, 2022
Applying Systems Thinking for Better Thoughts
Jul 13, 2022
Outside View or Anecdote? The Right Answer is Both
Jul 11, 2022
Protect Transparency On Your Team
Jul 08, 2022
Meeting Red Flags - Problems In Your Meetings That Signal Issues In Your Culture
Jul 07, 2022
Better Meetings: Who Is the Audience?
Jun 30, 2022
Better Meetings - What Kind of Meeting, What Kind of Goal?
Jun 27, 2022
Your Career Growth Doesn't Just Depend On Your Competency
Jun 23, 2022
Two Questions Focused On Unearthing Hidden Information In Yourself
Jun 21, 2022
Asking a Taboo Question
Jun 15, 2022
Reframe Play as a Principle
Jun 13, 2022
Interrogating Beliefs and Treasuring Those Who Disagree With You
Jun 08, 2022
Two Forks in the Road On the Path Towards Optimization and Productivity
Jun 06, 2022
Techniques for People Struggling to Define Their Values
Jun 01, 2022
Using Core Tools and Activities for Grounded Productivity
May 31, 2022
Productivity, But Only On Paper
May 25, 2022
The Only Productivity Discussion Worth Having
May 23, 2022
Make Room to Expect the Exceptions
May 20, 2022
You Need Better Inputs to improve Your Options
May 18, 2022
Tradeoffs Of Control Optimized To Serve Your Goals
May 11, 2022
Scheduling Time To Go The Extra Mile
May 09, 2022
Premortems for Personal Goals
May 04, 2022
Compare, Carefully
May 02, 2022
Busting False Coupling and Finding Positive Negotiation Positions
Apr 27, 2022
Making Space for Intuition in Decision-making
Apr 25, 2022
Blueprint for Better Intermediate Decisionmaking
Apr 20, 2022
Finding Perspective On Purpose - Make it Visible, Make it Clear
Apr 18, 2022
The Principle of Isolation
Apr 14, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Reiterate and Reflect for Better Communication
Apr 11, 2022
Ambiguous Target Decisions and Noise
Apr 06, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - The Assumption of Motivation
Apr 04, 2022
The Big Picture Pyramid
Mar 30, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Two Questions to Find Guidance If You Don't Have A Manager
Mar 28, 2022
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part Two
Mar 23, 2022
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part One
Mar 21, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - One-On-One Frameworks: Focus and Fears
Mar 18, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Investing in a Healthier Manager-to-Report Relationship
Mar 14, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager Series: Calibration Conversation - 3 Questions to Ask Your Manager ASAP
Mar 11, 2022
No More Status Meetings - A Forcing Function For Better Team Information Flow
Mar 07, 2022
Two Principles To Improve Your Software Design Decisions
Mar 02, 2022
Clearly Define What Your Toolset Can't Do
Feb 28, 2022
When Sense-making and Statistics Collide
Feb 24, 2022
Opportunities of Convergence and the Cost of Divergence
Feb 22, 2022
Viewing Teams Through the Lens of Trust
Feb 17, 2022
3 Habits For Your First 30 Days As A New Engineer On A Team (Corrected Audio)
Feb 14, 2022
Your Media, Your Message
Feb 10, 2022
Two Shifts to Change Our Working Mindset from Static to Dynamic
Feb 08, 2022
Taking Advantage of Uniquely Human Capabilities
Feb 03, 2022
Seek Context to Offset Prediction Errors
Feb 01, 2022
Excessive Cohesion - When We Fill In Gaps to Make Things Make Sense
Jan 27, 2022
Some of My Productivity Mechanisms
Jan 24, 2022
Assimilating Advice - Dealing with Information Overload
Jan 20, 2022
Help, I'm Blocked! Four Common Root Causes for Developers Getting Blocked
Jan 18, 2022
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part Two
Jan 12, 2022
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part One
Jan 10, 2022
Purpose Oriented Resolutions, Part Two, and 7 Years of Developer Tea!
Jan 05, 2022
Developing Purpose Oriented Resolutions
Jan 03, 2022
Your Only Challenge Is To Focus
Dec 30, 2021
Taking Back Ownership Over Your Priorities
Dec 28, 2021
3 Cognitive Pitfalls of Mental Models
Dec 23, 2021
Using Proactive Decision Tools To Reduce Reactive Decision Error
Dec 20, 2021
Two Perspective-Sharpening Tools For Your New Year's Resolution Making
Dec 17, 2021
Two Tools for Improving Your Closest Relationships
Dec 15, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One (Fixed Audio)
Dec 14, 2021
Input Quadrant - A Tool for Better Retrospectives
Dec 13, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part Two
Dec 08, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One
Dec 06, 2021
The Focus IS the Work
Dec 01, 2021
Dealing with Inevitable But Unpredictable Events
Nov 29, 2021
Think in Composition
Nov 24, 2021
Substitute Better Questions
Nov 23, 2021
Focusing On Fundamentals Is Not Repetition, It is Refinement
Nov 18, 2021
Metamodeling and Steering Systems for Self Improvement
Nov 16, 2021
When Pressure Turns To Poison
Nov 11, 2021
Less Confidence, More Bravery
Nov 08, 2021
Habits, Languages, Processes, and Other Behavior Engines
Nov 02, 2021
Mindful Job Search: Myths and Psychology of Interviewing
Oct 27, 2021
Mindful Job Search: Is it really time for me to quit my job?
Oct 25, 2021
Can You Really Pick the Right Tool for Every Job?
Oct 20, 2021
A Statistical Case for Iteration Over Perfect Preparation
Oct 18, 2021
Avoid Unnecessary Prediction
Oct 15, 2021
Give Random a Chance
Oct 13, 2021
Two Illusions of Agreement
Oct 07, 2021
Limit Your Options By Limiting Your Obligations
Oct 04, 2021
Feature Exploitation
Sep 29, 2021
How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
Sep 27, 2021
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part Two
Sep 22, 2021
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part One
Sep 20, 2021
Inner and Outer Layers of Context
Sep 16, 2021
Finding the Good in the Negative - Ask, "what do I do about this?"
Sep 13, 2021
Two Razors for More Efficient Decision-making
Sep 09, 2021
Use Your Expectations As a Tool
Sep 06, 2021
Flexibility is a Resource to Gather When You Least Need It
Sep 02, 2021
Deconstructing Purpose
Aug 30, 2021
Two Variations of Confirmation Bias
Aug 25, 2021
How You Shape Your World With Macro and Micro Stories
Aug 23, 2021
Friday Refill: Always Keep Your Tank Full
Aug 20, 2021
The Most Critical Career Mistake You Can Make
Aug 18, 2021
Failure is an Opportunity for Responsibility
Aug 16, 2021
Friday Refill: What Are Your Ideals?
Aug 13, 2021
4 Questions To Understand Your Long Term Career Trajectory
Aug 11, 2021
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO, Part Two
Aug 09, 2021
Friday Refill: Give Tomorrow-You Advice from Today
Aug 06, 2021
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
Aug 05, 2021
Uncomfortable Silence: What If You Do Nothing?
Aug 03, 2021
Friday Refill: Imaginary Comparisons
Jul 30, 2021
Implicit Hypotheses
Jul 28, 2021
Model Manager - What We Don't Manage
Jul 26, 2021
Friday Refill: Waiting and Replaying
Jul 23, 2021
Reframing Discipline and Elastic Habits
Jul 21, 2021
Model Manager: Human Behavior is the Primary Output of Engineering Processes
Jul 19, 2021
Friday Refill: Focusing On Mastery Will Not Limit Your Options
Jul 16, 2021
Compounding Time In Your Favor
Jul 14, 2021
The Bowl of Mediocrity
Jul 12, 2021
Friday Refill - Stay Mindful During Phases of Execution
Jul 09, 2021
Step One Always Goes On Your Calendar
Jul 08, 2021
The Tension Between Purpose and Mindfulness
Jul 06, 2021
Friday Refill: Intuition Over Memorization
Jul 02, 2021
Local and Global Rationality
Jul 01, 2021
Skill-Building Is Not One Dimensional
Jun 29, 2021
Balancing Entropy and Focus
Jun 23, 2021
Decision-making Skills: Two Types of Probabilistic Thinking
Jun 21, 2021
Using Cognitive Dissonance as a Tool
Jun 16, 2021
Non-Linear Learning and Progress
Jun 14, 2021
Friday Refill - Clarified Intentions and Flexible Goals
Jun 11, 2021
Too Serious to Succeed
Jun 09, 2021
Make Your Obstacles Irrelevant
Jun 07, 2021
Friday Refill: Growth, Uncomfortability, and the Unknown
Jun 04, 2021
Finding Resonance
Jun 02, 2021
Reframe Your Plateaus
May 31, 2021
Friday Refill: Your Baseline Determines Your Leverage
May 28, 2021
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part Two
May 26, 2021
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part One
May 24, 2021
Friday Refill: Inviting Growth Into Your Regular Schedule
May 21, 2021
Becoming Your Best Coach - Questioning Your Self
May 19, 2021
Sources of Truth
May 17, 2021
Friday Refill - One Thing at a Time
May 14, 2021
Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part Two
May 12, 2021
(Fixed Audio) Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part One
May 10, 2021
Friday Refill - Seeking a Different Inside View
May 07, 2021
Detaching to Seek an Outside View
May 05, 2021
Conflating Uniqueness with Value
May 03, 2021
Refill Friday - Best Practices and Asking When
Apr 30, 2021
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part Two
Apr 29, 2021
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part One
Apr 27, 2021
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion (Fixed)
Apr 23, 2021
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion
Apr 23, 2021
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part Two
Apr 21, 2021
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part One
Apr 19, 2021
Introduce Intentional Asymmetry
Apr 16, 2021
Narrative Complexity
Apr 14, 2021
Changing Work Environments and Availability Bias
Apr 12, 2021
Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé
Apr 09, 2021
Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together
Apr 08, 2021
Find Your Values in the Dark
Apr 06, 2021
Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access
Apr 02, 2021
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two
Mar 31, 2021
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One
Mar 29, 2021
Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking
Mar 26, 2021
Ban the Heroics On Your Team
Mar 24, 2021
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)
Mar 23, 2021
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition
Mar 22, 2021
Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off
Mar 19, 2021
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Mar 17, 2021
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
Mar 16, 2021
Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
Mar 12, 2021
Superpowered Imagination
Mar 11, 2021
Biases of Attention
Mar 08, 2021
Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
Mar 05, 2021
Clean Up Your Goals
Mar 04, 2021
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
Mar 01, 2021
Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
Feb 26, 2021
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
Feb 24, 2021
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
Feb 22, 2021
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
Feb 19, 2021
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future
Feb 17, 2021
Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
Feb 15, 2021
Self Distancing
Feb 12, 2021
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Feb 10, 2021
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Feb 08, 2021
Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
Feb 05, 2021
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
Feb 03, 2021
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
Feb 01, 2021
Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
Jan 29, 2021
Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
Jan 27, 2021
The Downside to Inaction
Jan 25, 2021
Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
Jan 22, 2021
The Bucket Model
Jan 21, 2021
The Shape of Work
Jan 18, 2021
Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We're Proven Wrong)
Jan 13, 2021
Designing Your Skill Portfolio
Jan 11, 2021
Optionality Sweet Spot
Jan 06, 2021
The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
Jan 04, 2021
If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
Dec 31, 2020
Imagining the End
Dec 28, 2020
Making Things Invisible
Dec 23, 2020
The Paradox of Transcendence
Dec 21, 2020
Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life
Dec 16, 2020
Refactor Your Labeling Techniques
Dec 14, 2020
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 2)
Dec 09, 2020
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1)
Dec 07, 2020
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2)
Dec 02, 2020
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 1)
Nov 30, 2020
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 2)
Nov 25, 2020
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 1)
Nov 23, 2020
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 2)
Nov 18, 2020
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 1)
Nov 16, 2020
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 2)
Nov 11, 2020
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 1)
Nov 09, 2020
Exactly How Different Are You From Average?
Nov 06, 2020
Think About Invisible Things More Often
Nov 04, 2020
Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience
Oct 28, 2020
Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do
Oct 26, 2020
4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Oct 21, 2020
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)
Oct 19, 2020
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)
Oct 14, 2020
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)
Oct 08, 2020
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)
Oct 08, 2020
Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness
Oct 05, 2020
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)
Sep 30, 2020
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)
Sep 28, 2020
Interview w/ David Marquet
Sep 25, 2020
Give Up Control, On Purpose
Sep 21, 2020
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)
Sep 16, 2020
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)
Sep 14, 2020
Intention, Action and Result
Sep 10, 2020
Complexity Is A Scarce Resource
Sep 08, 2020
5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes
Sep 02, 2020
How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions
Aug 31, 2020
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 2)
Aug 26, 2020
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)
Aug 24, 2020
4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer
Aug 19, 2020
Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects
Aug 17, 2020
The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner
Aug 13, 2020
Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests
Aug 10, 2020
The Critical Importance of Labels
Aug 05, 2020
Using Your Brain Without Thinking
Aug 04, 2020
Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)
Jul 29, 2020
Interview w/ Aaron Upright
Jul 28, 2020
Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?
Jul 22, 2020
Future Focused Feedback
Jul 20, 2020
Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions
Jul 17, 2020
Small Problems and Principled Engineering
Jul 14, 2020
The Stories Your Code Tells
Jul 08, 2020
Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies
Jul 06, 2020
Your Present is Soon Your Past
Jul 01, 2020
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity
Jun 29, 2020
Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher
Jun 26, 2020
Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements
Jun 25, 2020
Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career
Jun 22, 2020
Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks
Jun 20, 2020
What Will You Say When You Don't know?
Jun 18, 2020
Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
Jun 15, 2020
Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?
Jun 12, 2020
How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions
Jun 10, 2020
4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers
Jun 08, 2020
What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?
Jun 03, 2020
Play, Stakes, and Learning
Jun 01, 2020
Leveraging Our Emotional Goals
May 27, 2020
Mental Models for Finding Balance
May 25, 2020
High Certainty, High Value Defaults
May 22, 2020
3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author
May 20, 2020
4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer
May 18, 2020
What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?
May 15, 2020
Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
May 13, 2020
Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models
May 12, 2020
Productive Self-Sabotage
May 08, 2020
Simple Prioritization Visualization
May 06, 2020
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
May 04, 2020
When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem
May 01, 2020
Default Problem Solving Modes
Apr 29, 2020
What Orders Have You Inherited?
Apr 27, 2020
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)
Apr 24, 2020
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)
Apr 22, 2020
Protecting Uncertainty
Apr 20, 2020
Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off
Apr 17, 2020
Consider Your Cues
Apr 13, 2020
How Little We Really Know
Apr 11, 2020
Improving Through Bad Ideas and Silly Questions
Apr 08, 2020
Forcing Functions
Apr 06, 2020
Growth, Uncomfortability, and Deliberate Practice
Apr 03, 2020
Practical Steps for Reframing Problems
Apr 01, 2020
Take Advantage of What You Already Have
Mar 30, 2020
Stress and Tolerance
Mar 27, 2020
Architecting Change - Interpolation
Mar 25, 2020
When Do Long-Term Models and Habits Betray You?
Mar 23, 2020
The Overreaction Paradox
Mar 20, 2020
Hidden Environment Inputs - Mindful Remote Work
Mar 18, 2020
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry (Part 2)
Mar 16, 2020
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry - Part 1
Mar 13, 2020
Flattening the Cost of Change Curve
Mar 11, 2020
4 Reasons You Will Never Pick the "Right Tool For the Job"
Mar 09, 2020
Four Questions for the Weekend
Mar 07, 2020
Breaking Your Own Rules Accelerates Bad Habit Formation
Mar 04, 2020
Redefine Your Career Search Rules
Mar 02, 2020
Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today
Feb 28, 2020
Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You
Feb 26, 2020
Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance
Feb 25, 2020
Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model
Feb 21, 2020
Implicit Models and Processes
Feb 19, 2020
Measuring Freedom to Change
Feb 17, 2020
Embracing Confusion
Feb 14, 2020
Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution
Feb 12, 2020
You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement
Feb 10, 2020
Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities
Feb 07, 2020
Defining Your Reference Points
Feb 05, 2020
Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces
Feb 03, 2020
Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents
Jan 31, 2020
What Are your Fundamentals?
Jan 29, 2020
Getting On The Right Level When Solving Problems Collaboratively
Jan 27, 2020
Management Anti-Pattern - Detail Abstraction
Jan 24, 2020
Management Anti-Patterns - False Homogeneity
Jan 22, 2020
Management Anti-Patterns - Implicit Assignment of Responsibility
Jan 20, 2020
Two Biases that Can Affect Your Work and Relationships
Jan 17, 2020
You'll Never Have All of the Information
Jan 16, 2020
Productivity Isn't About How Much You Get done
Jan 13, 2020
3 Guidelines for Happier Work with Designers
Jan 10, 2020
Connecting Tasks to Operating Modes
Jan 09, 2020
Success and Cumulative Advantage
Jan 06, 2020
A Key Misconception About Resolutions
Jan 03, 2020
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 2)
Dec 27, 2019
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg
Dec 23, 2019
Simplifying
Dec 20, 2019
What We Do With a Lack of Information
Dec 18, 2019
Disagreeing Better, On Purpose
Dec 16, 2019
Two More Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Three)
Dec 13, 2019
Two Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Two)
Dec 11, 2019
Better Feedback Loops (Part One) - Validation and Cycle Time
Dec 09, 2019
Justifying Feature Work with User Roles and Motivations
Dec 06, 2019
Hypocognition and the Importance of Concepts
Dec 04, 2019
Colliding Titles and Roles
Dec 02, 2019
Managing Requests, Making Commitments
Nov 29, 2019
The Benefit of Our Predecessors
Nov 27, 2019
The Illusion of Balancing Priorities
Nov 25, 2019
Commit To Actions, Measure Outcomes
Nov 22, 2019
Check Your Leverage
Nov 20, 2019
Meetings Can Trick Your Emotions
Nov 18, 2019
Preserving Subcultural Language
Nov 16, 2019
Different Behaviors with the Same Values - Practicing Modes
Nov 13, 2019
How Small Behaviors Cascade into Life-Changing Results
Nov 11, 2019
Focusing On Improving One Value At A Time
Nov 08, 2019
Tracing Chained Motivations
Nov 06, 2019
Productivity In The Face of Ambiguity with Functional Assumptions
Nov 04, 2019
Ask Better Questions
Nov 01, 2019
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 2)
Oct 30, 2019
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 1)
Oct 28, 2019
Seeking a Disconnected Perspective
Oct 25, 2019
Balancing Accountability and Empathy
Oct 23, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Multiplying Value by Thinking in Systems
Oct 21, 2019
Messages in Object Oriented Programming
Oct 18, 2019
Be Present While Thinking on the Past and Future
Oct 16, 2019
Leverage As A Career Heuristic
Oct 14, 2019
Don't Use Transparency As a Weapon
Oct 11, 2019
Steps to Become a Terrible Developer
Oct 09, 2019
The Ocean of Choice Between Can and Will
Oct 07, 2019
Priming Effects
Oct 04, 2019
Dealing With Overwhelm
Oct 03, 2019
Admitting When You Don't Know
Sep 30, 2019
From Explicit to Implicit: When Our Mental Energy is Wasted
Sep 28, 2019
Implicit to Explicit: Management Systems
Sep 25, 2019
Implicit to Explicit: Perception and Emotions
Sep 23, 2019
Moving Implicit Systems to Be More Explicit
Sep 20, 2019
Progress by Habit, Perception by Exception
Sep 18, 2019
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 2)
Sep 16, 2019
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 1)
Sep 13, 2019
How To Be A Bad Manager
Sep 11, 2019
Imagining a Clearer Reality
Sep 09, 2019
Digging Up Your Purpose
Sep 06, 2019
The Nuances of Behavior and Research
Sep 04, 2019
Advice I Would Have Rejected Ten Years Ago
Sep 03, 2019
Your Purpose is Not a Point in the Future
Aug 30, 2019
Listen To This In You're Feeling Stuck
Aug 28, 2019
Improve Your Team by Rejecting These Bad Assumptions
Aug 26, 2019
Using Pre-Mortems to Find the Opposition to Our Focus
Aug 23, 2019
Taking Advantage of Your Time as a Student
Aug 21, 2019
Beating Boredom in Your Career
Aug 19, 2019
Short Term Decisions, Long Term Mindset
Aug 16, 2019
Beating Dogma And Choosing The Right Tools
Aug 14, 2019
Reaping Rewards by Expecting Success
Aug 12, 2019
Going Beyond Simply Fixing Failures
Aug 09, 2019
How to Engineer More Epiphany Moments in Your Day-to-Day
Aug 05, 2019
3x3 - Misconceptions About Senior Engineers
Aug 02, 2019
3x3 - Relating Better With Difficult Coworkers
Jul 31, 2019
3x3 - Uncovering Hidden Information
Jul 29, 2019
Belief Substitution
Jul 26, 2019
Career Decisions and Penalty Kicks
Jul 24, 2019
How to Affect Organizational Change
Jul 22, 2019
Every Decision is an Opportunity Tradeoff
Jul 19, 2019
The Dangerous Characteristics of 10x Engineers
Jul 17, 2019
You're Not So Important - Why Our Ego Drives Anxiety in the Workspace
Jul 15, 2019
Finding Beginner's Luck Again
Jul 12, 2019
Part 3: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 10, 2019
Part 2: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 08, 2019
Part 1: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 05, 2019
What You Feed Will Grow
Jul 03, 2019
Mid-Year Resolutions
Jul 01, 2019
How Do I Choose a Starting Point for Best Practice?
Jun 30, 2019
Reversing Adversarial Dynamics in Interviews
Jun 26, 2019
Accelerate Your Career with Pattern Matching
Jun 24, 2019
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 2)
Jun 21, 2019
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 1)
Jun 19, 2019
The Connection Between Imagination, Confidence and Performance
Jun 17, 2019
How Can Two Rational People Disagree?
Jun 12, 2019
Test Driven Meetings - Measuring Outputs and Side Effects
Jun 10, 2019
3 Assumptions That Can Hurt Your Job Search
Jun 03, 2019
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo (part 2)
May 31, 2019
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 1)
May 29, 2019
Great Code is Marked by Flexibility
May 27, 2019
Crafting Your Work By Your Strengths
May 24, 2019
Make Your Problems Smaller
May 22, 2019
Three Things I Wish I Learned Earlier in My Career As A Software Developer
May 20, 2019
3 Red Flags that You're Heading for Burnout
May 17, 2019
3 Principles for Your Job Search
May 15, 2019
Mental Simulations - Information (A)Symmetry
May 13, 2019
Mental Simulations - Persona Perspectives
May 10, 2019
Metal Simulations - Artificial Constraints
May 08, 2019
The Fear : Value Connection
May 06, 2019
What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For?
May 03, 2019
Contingencies and Planning for Failure
May 01, 2019
Three Career-Changing Perspective Shifts When Preparing to Start A New Job
Apr 29, 2019
Uncovering Your Unconscious With Flagged Behaviors
Apr 26, 2019
Meetings - Good, Bad, Or Just Complex?
Apr 24, 2019
Modeling Decisions as Dynamic Functions
Apr 22, 2019
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 2)
Apr 19, 2019
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 1)
Apr 17, 2019
Uncovering Deeper Motivations and Goals
Apr 15, 2019
Ambiguous Goals, Concrete Actions
Apr 12, 2019
Focusing Career Progress
Apr 10, 2019
Fail Mode
Apr 08, 2019
Feedback Shouldn't Be Scary
Apr 03, 2019
Mental Accounting
Apr 01, 2019
Headroom
Mar 29, 2019
Seek to Understand Rather than Persuade Others Perspectives
Mar 27, 2019
Bonus Episode - Soft Skills Engineering Meets Developer Tea
Mar 26, 2019
Habits and Replacement Behaviors for Interrupting Triggers
Mar 22, 2019
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 2)
Mar 20, 2019
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 1)
Mar 18, 2019
Witness Protection Program
Mar 15, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Getting to Code Quickly and Model Thinking
Mar 13, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Clarity, Brevity and Context
Mar 09, 2019
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 2)
Mar 06, 2019
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 1)
Mar 04, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Seeking Feedback
Mar 01, 2019
Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion
Feb 27, 2019
Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking
Feb 25, 2019
Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy
Feb 22, 2019
Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping
Feb 20, 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication
Feb 19, 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication
Feb 15, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)
Feb 13, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)
Feb 11, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)
Feb 08, 2019
Beating Procrastination
Feb 06, 2019
Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias
Feb 04, 2019
When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect
Jan 30, 2019
Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism
Jan 28, 2019
Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty
Jan 25, 2019
Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine
Jan 23, 2019
Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception
Jan 21, 2019
High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code
Jan 18, 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)
Jan 16, 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)
Jan 14, 2019
Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?
Jan 11, 2019
5 Tips for Improving Your Principles of Experimentation
Jan 09, 2019
Visualize Your Goals in Details
Jan 07, 2019
Expectations vs. Reality
Jan 04, 2019
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (pt. 2)
Jan 02, 2019
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (Part 1)
Dec 31, 2018
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 2)
Dec 28, 2018
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 1)
Dec 27, 2018
Why Rules Apply Especially to Exceptions
Dec 14, 2018
3 Practical Steps for Avoiding Narrative Biases
Dec 12, 2018
Proof of Complexity and Seeking Simplicity
Dec 10, 2018
The Zen Developer - What Are You Pushing On?
Dec 07, 2018
Bad Bugs - Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems
Dec 05, 2018
Practical Tips for Minding the Details
Dec 03, 2018
Practicing Non-Attachment as a Developer
Nov 30, 2018
A Discussion On Falsehoods Developers Believe
Nov 28, 2018
Three Overconfidence Smells
Nov 26, 2018
A Challenge Towards Gratitude
Nov 23, 2018
Observing Your Stress Responses
Nov 21, 2018
How Relative Comparisons Affect Our Decisions
Nov 19, 2018
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 2)
Nov 16, 2018
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 1)
Nov 14, 2018
Inhibition, Fear, and Two Mindsets for Moving Forward in the Face of Uncertainty
Nov 12, 2018